Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about, what about Bigfoot?
That's correct. What about Bigfoot?
Bigfoot's a topic that we don't cover a ton on this program, but
I just think it's so fascinating with so many people having
reported these things. And the question often arises,
are these biological creatures, are they some sort of Cryptid?
Are they perhaps UFO alien ET non human entity related?
This first article takes us is from lifescience.com says the
most famous Bigfoot sightings written by Patrick Pester
published December 27th 2022. Bigfoot are Sasquatch is one of
North America's most enduring legends with thousands of people
claiming to have seen the giant ape like creature.
Here are the most famous Bigfoot sightings it says and it's got a
pretty cool illustration. Here it says Bigfoot or
Sasquatch is one of North America's most enduring legends.
The scientific community largely dismisses the idea of a large
unknown ape like creatures sauntering through the forest
because there's never been any hard evidence that such an
animal exists. Now I will say there's been some
hair samples found that have come back I believe has non
human that they really haven't resolved it.
And I think part of the problem with this might be just because
people are so close minded about this stuff, it says.
Nonetheless, there have been thousands of reported eyewitness
accounts over the last half century from people all over the
US and Canada. Here are some of the most famous
Bigfoot sightings. One of the most famous Bigfoot
sightings allegedly occurred on Mica Mountain in British
Columbia in 1955, when a man called William Rowe claimed he
saw a partly human, partly animal creature while hiking.
He swore in affidavit in 1957 that the creature was about 6
foot tall and covered in brown silver tipped hair with thick
arms, reaching down to its knees, broad feet and breast,
according to the Alberto Sasquatch organization website.
Now this would just be quite an animal.
It's 6 feet tall, not as tall as we think of a lot of these
Bigfoot, possibly a juvenile, who knows, but the fact that his
arms reached clear down to its knees, he says.
As I watched this creature I wondered if some movie company
was making a film at this place and what I saw was an actor
made-up to look partly human and partly animal, wrote wrote in
his 1957 affidavit. But as I observed it more, I
decided it would be impossible to fake such a specimen.
According to abominable science origins of the Yeti nasty other
famous cryptids rose ape like siding marks a change from
earlier Sasquatch accounts from British Columbia which
repeatedly describes Sasquatch as a giant sized indigenous
person. In other words, it was the birth
of modern Bigfoot, though that name wouldn't emerge for another
year. Scientists argue that eyewitness
testimony isn't always reliable. So this and other sightings are
not conclusive evidence? Well, of course they're not
conclusive, but they're eyewitness evidence, OK?
And we've talked about many times during this program.
People are locked up all over this country based on eyewitness
evidence. So if eyewitness evidence is not
worth anything, I guess we better change the court system,
hadn't we? Prospector Albert Osment claimed
that he spent around a week with a Bigfoot family near Toba
Inlet, British Columbia in 1924. Osman was camping alone when he
says he was scooped up in his sleeping bag by a Papa Bigfoot
and taken to meet Mama Bigfoot and two Bigfoot children.
Osman was supposedly held captive by the family, but said
he eventually escaped when Papa Bigfoot ate Osman's chewing
tobacca and fell. I'll According to a retelling of
the story, anthropologist David Daling's book Bigfoot Exposed
and Anthropologist examines American enduring legend.
Yeah, some people don't really like to swallow that tobacco
juice. It can be nasty if you're not
used to it, that's for sure. Ossman's description of his
captors are similar to that of Rose 1957 account.
However, Dagling points out in his book that even though Osman
said the encounter took place in 1924, he didn't write it down
until 1957, after he heard Rose tell.
So he may have been inspired or influenced by Roe.
Well, that's quite possible. But you know, a lot of times
those old timers, they heard things, saw things they just
never talked about. It goes on and says what is
likely the most famous Bigfoot sighting was caught on camera in
1967. The Patterson Gimlin film is a
minute long video that appears to show a female Bigfoot, later
nicknamed Patty, walking through a clearing in Northern
California. The film was still often held up
by Bigfoot believers as the best piece of evidence for the
creature's existence. The scientific community has
overwhelmingly dismissed the film as showing a person wearing
a costume. Well, we know you have to follow
the science, don't you? Because hey, we've got this
elite group of people on top that know everything.
Their name, science. Just do what do whatever they
tell you, believe whatever they say.
Jeffrey Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at
Idaho State University. We've seen this guy on TV 8.
Seems like a pretty cool guy to me and author of Sasquatch
Legend Me Science is one of the few science to publicly backed
the film and the existence of Bigfoot.
Meldrum told Live Science that not only is he convinced the
film was real, but believes it's grown more incredible.
It's grown more credible over time.
The creature's walk was criticized in the 1960s for
being too human. But Meldrum argues that the
subsequent scientific discoveries, such as Lucy, an
extinct 3.2 million year old human ancestor, reveal or ape
like ancestors walked upright. So there's now a scientific
justification for the creatures of human like gait.
Yeah, I think that Meldrum kind of goes for the idea that these
things are some sort of, you know, throwback species to the
humans. I'm not so sure.
Maybe. It seems to me though, that
they're a lot more likely to be some sort of non human entity.
What you see in that film is exactly how we envision
something like a robust author put the scene to look at,
Meldrum said. It's almost as if now the
science has finally caught up to this whole phenomena of Bigfoot.
Meldrum noted that anatomical features visible on the film,
such as the proportions of the face, match up with early
humans, such as Parenthropus Boise, a species that lived
around 2.3 million years ago to 1.2 million years ago.
According to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History, the size of the creature in the film was
estimated to be to be between 6:00 and 7:00 foot tall.
Wow, that's, you know, it would be kind of neat if they could go
back and really do an exact estimation on that.
Maybe they have, and someone can tell us exactly how high, how
tall they think this thing was. And, you know, if it's seven
foot tall, I think we could pretty well rule out the same
being a man. Unless, unless you know that
that that the head costume would be that much outsized.
I don't know. However, most experts are not
convinced by the footage. Deron Nish, a paleozoologist and
the author of Hunting Monsters, Cryptozoology and Reality Behind
the Mists, summarize plenty of reasons to question the film's
authenticity in a 2020 Twitter thread.
Most notably, he highlights that Patterson, who shot the film,
had already turned Bigfoot into a money spending operation
before releasing it. But Nisha as that Patty's Pelt
appears to glisten and move like that of a real animal, and her
muscle movements look genuine, suggesting it's a very good
hoax. No matter how much evidence you
give some of these people, they're never going to entertain
the possibility that these things are real.
Brian Riggle, an associate professor of history science at
Keene University in New Jersey and author of Searching for
Sasquatch, Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology, is more
damning of the film. You know, with a title like
that, I mean, what? What are you going to assume and
told life Science that people project their own views on the
Paddy? You look at it and you see what
you want to believe, he said. I don't know.
I'm just looking at it and seeing this creature walk across
the Creek, and I don't know if it's a man in a suit or an
animal, but it looks pretty convincing.
The Ape Canyon incident in 1924 wasn't so much an alleged
sighting as a supposed battle. A group of gold prospectors
claimed they defended their cabin against multiple Gorilla
Men in a gorge later named Ape Canyon on the side of Mount
Saint Helens. One of the miners, Fred Beck,
allegedly shot at a Sasquatch during the day, which prompted a
gang of its Harry Brethren to seek revenge.
Come nightfall. The creatures are said to have
pelted the miners cabin with rocks and boulders, and one even
reached an arm inside. The miners survive the onslaught
and as the sun rose, the beast retreated back into the woods,
possibly after Beck shot 1. Beck returned to the scene with
US forest Rangers after news broke of the attack.
The Rangers couldn't find a Sasquatch body and apparently
weren't impressed with the large stones they found next to the
cabin or the supposed giant footprints nearby, the local
Oregonian newspaper reported at the time.
The Rangers seemed to think the miners placed the stones there
themselves and that the footprints were made by a human
hand. 1924 I mean, you know, these guys just had to work hard
enough to get through a day. It seems hard to imagine they
would have had time to Jack around with this stuff.
One popular explanation for the Canyon story?
Four of us skeptics, other than the miners simply making up, is
that the miners were actually set upon by a gang of local
youth throwing rocks at the cabin for fun, according to
travel website Atlas Obscure. Although this doesn't account
for all the aspects of the story.
Yeah, it's a favorite thing these guys like to do.
They just throw some, you know, some garbage up against the wall
and see if it sticks, ignore the evidence, and then cite an
anonymous source. That's kind of the that's that's
kind of the MO here. Scott Tompkins, the data manager
and founder of the Bigfoot Mapping Project, a website that
hosts around 8000 historical and modern Bigfoot sightings, told
Life Science that most Bigfoot sightings he's mapped don't end
in conflict. When people describe the
behavior of such creatures, they seem to be very curious but non
confrontational. As Tompkins said.
I can, I can understand that it seems like these if these things
were really out to get you, it seems like there'd be a lot more
missing people and a lot more dead people.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I'm just saying it
seems like that's not the normal, the normal role these
things play. There are many Bigfoot videos on
YouTube, but few are as popular as a clip from Provo Canyon,
Utah. The video appears to show a
large black animal hunched over in the trees, possibly feeding
or foraging. The camera zooms in to try to
get a closer look, and a few seconds later the great creature
stands up on two legs as if it's bipedal.
This causes the pair behind the camera to immediately turn and
run away. The video was posted October
30th, 2012 and has amassed more than 7.6 million views on
YouTube, according to account uploader Beard card, the pair
were on a camping trip, hoping to get a closer look at a deer
on a hill. On our way up we thought we saw
a bear until the monster stood up and looked straight at us,
Bear Card wrote in the video description.
We ran straight to the car after that, leaving our tent and
everything behind. It's probably all still up
there. Wow, that would be pretty
frightening I suppose, Even if it was a black bear.
I mean, still you're you have this big animal just staring up
and confronting you. Almost.
The Provo Canyon video short and inconclusive, Eric Record,
curator of Vertebrate zoology at the Natural History Museum of
Utah, told Fox 13 News, Utah after a more recent alleged
sighting in 2019 that science didn't support a Bigfoot in the
state. Yep, follow the science.
Must not be a Bigfoot. Well, it's the likelihood that
there are big animals that have gone undetected by scientists
and by trained observers, Rickard said.
There are lots of things to discover, particularly in the
natural world, that they don't take the form of giant apes
running around in largely settled areas of the world.
Well, that's exactly why I think these things are cooked as a
some sort and they're not by lot.
Maybe they maybe they take on a biological form, you know, but
there's some sort of non human entity.
I believe Skunk Apes are supposedly swamp dwelling
versions of Bigfoot that are rumored to roam the southeastern
US. October 28th, 2013 a YouTube
account named Josh Highcliffe uploaded one of the most popular
Skunk Ape videos. In it the cameraman films a
potential skunk ape forging in a Mississippi swamp.
It looks like a gorilla squatted down big broad shoulders, little
peaked head, and it's pulling off chunks of wood that seemed
to demonstrate extreme strength. Then all of a sudden it stands
up and it's got these long legs, Meldrum said, impressed by the
video but yet to examine it in detail.
The last shot of the creature in the video comes just as it
stands up, somewhere to the 2012 Provo Canyon video.
Unfortunately, people filming Bigfoot have a tendency to
suddenly jerk the camera and run away just as they're about to
get a good view of 1. Understandably fearful and if
the creature exists, but convenient if they're creating a
host. Folks, this is one of many
reasons why skeptics to cry such videos and ask believers to
produce a body. I think asking people to produce
a body this thing is a bad idea because you're going to
eventually end up with some jughead out there wearing a
Bigfoot costume that gets shot and killed.
And like we had the guy that was trying to prank people wearing a
Bigfoot costume a few years ago, it ran out in front of a car,
got himself killed, and we don't want that.
In 2008, two men, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitten, claimed to
possess a frozen body of a Bigfoot specimen.
They said they found it while hiking in the woods in northern
Georgia. Their story made headlines, but
the body turned out to be a rubber gorilla suit.
Yeah, you're always going to have these these knuckleheads
trying to, you know, prank the media.
It's not helpful now, it says here.
While not a sighting per SE, Bigfoot footprints are among the
most commonly reported aspects of the Bigfoot phenomena.
Even the name Bigfoot stems from a seemingly bogus 1958 story
about giant footprints in Northern California found by a
man called Ray Wallace. His children later claimed that
their prints were their father's prank, according to the
Smithsonian. Meldrum argues that hoaxers are
rare and that he's got plenty of legitimate footprints that back
up the masses of sightings. Yeah, I think there probably are
a little bit of both on these. I've got over 300 footprint cast
copies and original materials in my laboratory that formed the
basis of remarkable body of data that attest to the fact that
there is something out there leaving these footprints,
Meldrum said. And the most straightforward
answer is that it's a bipedal primate species that's not
recognized by science. Skeptics, however, will wait for
a body. All right.
Just feel like if there ever was a body found that that thing's
going to disappear quicker than the June snow.
I tell you, they're not going to let you have one of these things
if you do find one. And then I hate to be the guy
that turned it in. Now, I did find another personal
tale on Reddit about somebody had a Bigfoot experience.
I did a little editing on it and it's also insightful, I think,
this person says. When I was younger, I arrived at
the conclusion that Sasquatch couldn't possibly exist.
Initially I held on to optimism, but my enthusiasm waned as all
intriguing pieces of evidence were consistently disproven.
Quote UN quote. Even the more compelling proof,
such as the Patterson Gimlin Field and the Skokin Cache were
almost invariably dismissed as proven hoaxes.
Despite the continuous sightings, the subjects only
remaining alerted me stem from first hand accounts.
Numerous individuals share their experiences with me, devoid of
any apparent ulterior motives. What kept me intrigued was a
sheer number of people who, throughout the history, claimed
to witness the same phenomena. It seemed implausible that
thousands would lie about seeing something inexplicable.
I might question my sanity and light of the encounter I had
five years ago, but I'm certain it wasn't a figment on my
imagination. I'm not alone in having such an
experience. On that day, which started like
any other, I never anticipated anything out of the ordinary.
As someone with Asperger's, I've always been a I've always been a
distinct individual, more passionate about certain
subjects than others. Locally, I'm known as the kid
with an extensive knowledge of animals who spends a significant
amount of time outdoors. On December 15th, 2018, at the
age of 14, I suggested to my parents that we take a drive
around Patoga Lake. The evening was relatively warm,
around 55°, and I hope to spot some deer or birds.
Our entire family, five of us, embarked on this drive in
Crawford County. As we drove past Patoka Lake and
continued along, I64I peered out the window at the Hoosier
National Forest. Occasionally blinded by the
sun's glare, I lost track of the roads we traversed and precisely
where my sighting occurred. However, I recall a brick house
with a long driveway surrounded by trees nearby.
Approximately 100 feet away, I saw a figure walking parallel to
the road. I estimate it stood at least 7
feet tall, gauging its size against the driveway's width.
The creature had peculiar proportions.
Short legs, a sizable torso, and elongated arms, all covered in
long black hair. Its muscles resembled those of a
bodybuilder. Despite its human like
appearance. It sported a cone head and a
brow Ridge reminiscent of a gorilla.
I observed every detail except for the face, barely
recognizable from my vantage point.
It felt like witnessing the Patterson Gimlin film in person
with previously unnoted details. Now standing out in disbelief.
I was silent for about 5 minutes after the sighting.
Numerous questions raised through my mind, making it
difficult to articulate words. Eventually I mustered the
courage to tell my family I saw Bigfoot.
My sister, who claimed to have seen it when she was 6,
exclaimed. I told you it was real, although
I suggested turning back the lack of suitable places to do so
in the encroaching darkness prevented us.
My dad wholeheartedly believed me, pointing out my neck for
spotting things obscured from view, like a deer hidden in
bushes only visible from the top part of its head.
If I had spoken up immediately, might we might have captured the
best piece of Bigfoot footage. Ever since that sighting I've
delved into researching other possible sightings in Crawford
County. Now I bring that ready to use
camera every time I hike. Witnesses descriptions
consistently mentioned black collar, bipedal walking and
gorilla like features. These sightings typically occur
between evening and morning, suggesting the species might be
nocturnal. Food sources are often linked to
the creature, with reports of sightings near deer or crops,
but took a lake, Marengo and Harrison Crawford Forest are hot
spots for sightings in Crawford. I've discovered numerous people
openly discussing Bigfoot, to the point where it feels like
the species might have more sightings than some known, maybe
native species, such as Gray foxes and weasels.
When you consider the idea of a wild person surviving in the
woods, the existence of Sasquatch seems more plausible.
Humans with fewer offspring, longer lifespans, and higher
intellect could, with a few wilderness adaptations, endure
in such an environment. This creature with its longer
arms for forging, A sagittal Crest for chewing, larger feet
for balance and features regulating temperature, aligns
with this concept with once being 15 different species and
the Homo genius. I believe Homo sapiens aren't
the only sole survivors today. Perhaps there is more evidence
of Sasquatch that remains unrecognized.
I'm now certain that the Patterson Gimlin film was
genuine and skepticism might be obscuring judgment for many
other pieces of evidence. Quite possible.
There again, you know we talk about all these problems with
these things being biological only creatures that just happen
to live here as a subspecies. Those problems are kind of just
solved if you look at these things as being some type of non
human entity. And we have to ask ourself,
could they be the non human entity that Tucker Carlson and
Tom Delong and so many others have been talking about?
Maybe just here testing us out, testing the environment, looking
for their niche. Until next time, this UFO
warning over now.